Summary statement

To date, YPP has surveyed over 49,627 ha of peatland on 132 unique sites. With an estimated total of 95,796 ha of peat units to investigate in our project area, YPP has surveyed 52% of the area so far. Based on previous surveys, YPP estimates that by the time we survey all 95,796 ha, we expect 63,821ha to be actual peaty soils with 46,251 ha classed as deep peat (≥40cm). We estimate that, all peaty soils within our project area have locked away a huge 47,979,482 tonnes of carbon which gives an average of 501 tonnes of carbon per hectare - one of the densest terrestrial carbon stores of any habitat!

Erosion feature restoration